Nana Patekar Quotes

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Broadchurch' is shot through with the fear of being a parent: what's the most horrific loss you can imagine and how could you go on living afterwards?

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

I was 9 years old when my father - a strong, vibrant man in his early 40s - died of a heart attack. He was such a central figure in our lives that losing him was a terrible shock to all of us, my mother in particular.

The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.

My daughter passed away in 2003.

It is very painful to talk about my dear friend Rishi Kapoor in 'past tense.'

You're never prepared to lose anybody in your family.

I am devastated by the loss of my beautiful wife Jane. She was my best friend.

It's not possible to put into words the sense of loss and grief that comes to a family that loses one of their children.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'

I think any time we lose people, it's a hard moment.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.